Used to be a time when grown men used to be embarrassed to live with their mommies and daddies.
Posted on 09/15/2014 8:48:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
It has happened in VA.
And your house would be confiscated - since you are so accepting of this, why don't you just turn it over to the government and save them the trouble of finding some reason just to snatch it from you.
Okay, I guess we can mark another one down who thinks it’s okay for the government to seize property from citizens who have committed no crime, with no due process or compensation.
Good to know who you guys are around here.
Sue the governments behind off! There’s got to be a lawyer or group somewhere that would defend this baseless and criminal act by the government!
Do you think you should not lose your home if your child sells drugs out of your home just because you report her?
There’s no collective “we” when it comes to criminal matters. The family didn’t commit the crime, the child did.
If the government wanted to confiscate the kid’s iPod, I wouldn’t have much objection (if they used proper due process). That’s not the situation we are talking about though. We are talking about the government stealing property from third parties who have not been convicted of any crime.
Which means the government could do this to any innocent person, on a whim.
I ‘get’ that families can be evicted for a member’s drug use/distribution, but don’t ‘get’ what Constitutional provision allows the govt to seize the property of others. Do you know if this has been tested in the federal courts, up to SCOTUS?
Asset forfeiture laws allow us to take the ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins and use them to put more cops on the streets and more prosecutors in court.
In the last 5 years alone, the Justice Department shared over half a billion dollars in forfeited assets with State and local law enforcement.
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=2764&year=1991&month=3
Pam’s Site is back on line, Thank G-d.
Although it took a long time to load. I wonder what THAT means.
Is this only PA? Seems it’s a case that’s appropriate to SCOTUS.
I have no idea if it ha ever been tested in any court, and the feds do it also, not just state and locals.
Well, guess I shouldn’t be so quick to agree with some people.
Thought he’d clean that up in subsequent posts. Didn’t.
I, for sure, do not believe in confiscation of someone’s property withoit due process.
Moreover, I totally disagree with forfeiture laws.
They are abused so geardiots can get their toys and more importantly enable the police to exact justice, through supra powers they don’t have.
they are enforcement. The Judicial system is the arbiter.
So no, I don’t like swiping someone’s stuff.
Further, it erodes personal, property and equal protection.
You and I are on the same page.
Okay, thanks for clarifying.
Of course.
Really thought the other OP was being sarcastic....alas...
Used to be a time when grown men used to be embarrassed to live with their mommies and daddies.
“A month-and-a-half later police came back — this time to seize their house, forcing the Sourvelises and their children out on the street that day.”
At that point shooting the cops involved is a perfectly rational and moral act.
Those inner city neighborhoods often have a "no snitch" attitude toward the police and the neighbors don't complain until it's way out of control.
But losing the house? That's crazy. Put the brat in jail.
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